Document forensic, the fiqh and the Syariah Courts

Technological progress has made falsification of documents increasingly sophisticated and the need for forensic experts or Ra'yu al-Khabir indispensable in the Syariah Courts. This paper discusses the concept and methods of forensic document authentication by experts according to the Islamic...

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Main Authors:	Wan Abdul Fattah Wan Ismail, Lukman Abdul Mutalib, Zul Hilmi Abdullah, Abd Hamid Abd Murad, Nurfadhilah Che Amani, Madihah Mohammad Khir
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Published:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2015
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9217/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9217/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9217/1/12xx.geografia-april15-wanfattah-edam.pdf

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spelling	ukm-92172016-12-14T06:49:19Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9217/ Document forensic, the fiqh and the Syariah Courts Wan Abdul Fattah Wan Ismail, Lukman Abdul Mutalib, Zul Hilmi Abdullah, Abd Hamid Abd Murad, Nurfadhilah Che Amani, Madihah Mohammad Khir, Technological progress has made falsification of documents increasingly sophisticated and the need for forensic experts or Ra'yu al-Khabir indispensable in the Syariah Courts. This paper discusses the concept and methods of forensic document authentication by experts according to the Islamic law (fiqh). This study combined quantitative and qualitative approaches whereby 181 key informants comprising randomly sampled syariah and civil law experts and practitioners underwent in-depth interviews . Content analysis of the study revealed that respondent knowledge of document authentication methods according to the Islamic law was at the intermediate level with the mean = 3.59 and sd = 0.63 which was not enough to help the Syariah Courts cope with the rapid increase in the falsification rate of documents. This situation needs urgent redress and calls for the establishment of a comprehensive forensic model to provide adequate guidelines for judges and practitioners of the Syariah Courts. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9217/1/12xx.geografia-april15-wanfattah-edam.pdf Wan Abdul Fattah Wan Ismail, and Lukman Abdul Mutalib, and Zul Hilmi Abdullah, and Abd Hamid Abd Murad, and Nurfadhilah Che Amani, and Madihah Mohammad Khir, (2015) Document forensic, the fiqh and the Syariah Courts. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 11 (4). pp. 132-139. ISSN 2180-2491 http://www.ukm.my/geografia/v2/index.php?cont=a&item=2&thn=2015&vol=11&issue=4&ver=loc
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description	Technological progress has made falsification of documents increasingly sophisticated and the need for forensic experts or Ra'yu al-Khabir indispensable in the Syariah Courts. This paper discusses the concept and methods of forensic document authentication by experts according to the Islamic law (fiqh). This study combined quantitative and qualitative approaches whereby 181 key informants comprising randomly sampled syariah and civil law experts and practitioners underwent in-depth interviews . Content analysis of the study revealed that respondent knowledge of document authentication methods according to the Islamic law was at the intermediate level with the mean = 3.59 and sd = 0.63 which was not enough to help the Syariah Courts cope with the rapid increase in the falsification rate of documents. This situation needs urgent redress and calls for the establishment of a comprehensive forensic model to provide adequate guidelines for judges and practitioners of the Syariah Courts.
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author	Wan Abdul Fattah Wan Ismail, Lukman Abdul Mutalib, Zul Hilmi Abdullah, Abd Hamid Abd Murad, Nurfadhilah Che Amani, Madihah Mohammad Khir,
spellingShingle	Wan Abdul Fattah Wan Ismail, Lukman Abdul Mutalib, Zul Hilmi Abdullah, Abd Hamid Abd Murad, Nurfadhilah Che Amani, Madihah Mohammad Khir, Document forensic, the fiqh and the Syariah Courts
author_facet	Wan Abdul Fattah Wan Ismail, Lukman Abdul Mutalib, Zul Hilmi Abdullah, Abd Hamid Abd Murad, Nurfadhilah Che Amani, Madihah Mohammad Khir,
author_sort	Wan Abdul Fattah Wan Ismail,
title	Document forensic, the fiqh and the Syariah Courts
title_short	Document forensic, the fiqh and the Syariah Courts
title_full	Document forensic, the fiqh and the Syariah Courts
title_fullStr	Document forensic, the fiqh and the Syariah Courts
title_full_unstemmed	Document forensic, the fiqh and the Syariah Courts
title_sort	document forensic, the fiqh and the syariah courts
publisher	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi
publishDate	2015
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9217/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9217/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9217/1/12xx.geografia-april15-wanfattah-edam.pdf
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Document forensic, the fiqh and the Syariah Courts

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